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Legalizing moves : Salvadoran immigrants' struggle for U.S. residency /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coutin, Susan Bibler
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Refugees > Government policy > United States.
Asylum, Right of > United States.
Emigration and immigration law > United States.
Salvadorans > United States.
El Salvador > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
Table of Contents:
  • Chronology of political and legal events affecting Salvadoran asylum seekers
  • Negotiating identities
  • Illegality and the spaces of nonexistence
  • Papeles, permisos, and permanence
  • Law is one thing, justice is another
  • In the wolf's mouth
  • From refugees to immigrants
  • Legitimizing realities.